The WORST Military Defeats in History

[@Simplehistory]

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[@DavidWang-xg1sq]

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[@The_Duck_God]

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[@DavidWang-xg1sq]

@@The_Duck_God hey I love this guy alright

[@MatthewSmith-to1hz]

Next video: The 5 Sullivan Brothers

[@Finlandball39]

How did you make the comment 7 hrs ago when the video was posted 20 minutes ago?

[@shamsheed1726]

The Māori were in their trenches shooting. So they were at ground level where the brits couldn’t see them. They had no idea what was going on, but they had already pushed in full force. Turning would have resulted in even more casualties. There’s another one up north where the Brits bomb a pa site for like 5+ hrs.. The Māori had already moved and they were watching the Brits waste their ammo while the kids were playing and the adults were cooking food😂 And thanks for this. Peace from Aotearoa/ New Zealand✌🏾❤️🇳🇿

[@hokimoki3677]

Yeah that battle ehere the brits were bombing the pa was the start of tainui war..nz company wanted tainui land and an end to kingitanga that pa was the first battle ..māori escaped out back and watch the brits waste ammo ...theres alot of battles up and down the motu that made the brits look very ameteur...

[@PuhiPureBloOdYT]

Ruapekapeka was the site of the Northen battle. Kawiti was the chief

[@tinymahuta]

Cool speech, but the Poms still took over

[@RxvnNZ]

@@tinymahutathey did!? Your so smart can you teach me how you were able to figure that out!?

[@mattyallen3396]

Its just New Zealand.

[@J09-555]

*_"SCOREBOARD, SCOREBOARD"_* _-Undefeated Vietnamese_

[@legitusername-zl7to]

blud bout to end up on a VTV facebook report

[@Baconcatboy]

Except the millions of others that were killed

[@Newdivide]

Vietnam undefeated!

[@thelonewolf777]

@@Baconcatboy u mean millions of civilians like women and children ?

[@Baconcatboy]

@@thelonewolf777 it still includes the Vietcong R.I.P to the innocents though.

[@Countryball893]

Thank you for having New Zealand in this

[@falqnz4706]

As if you wouldn’t their amazing bruv they deserve their honours of protecting their country

[@Countryball893]

@falqnz4706 I am a new zealander

[@Newdivide]

The French base in Dien Bien Phu was located in a valley. Although it seemed impossible for the Viet Minh to use artillery as the French knew it was very difficult to bring heavy artillery up the terrain, that didn't stop them from bringing them up

[@bryanbundik]

"....Never underestimate your enemy ...."

[@Newdivide]

@@bryanbundik yep

[@DrakeKarson]

Patriotism at its finest.

[@thirstyserpent1079]

they went to extreme lengths to disassemble a large amount of standard artillery and move it into the area but on top of that I think it was confirmed they had somehow moved multiple Katyusha's into the mountains surrounding the fort so it would be subjected to rocket artillery as well.

[@WangMingGe]

They also dug tunnels /manmade cave-type shelters into the valley walls to protect the guns from French air support or counter-battery fire, all purely by hand labour. Very impressive.

[@Realitycheckm8]

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." -Dwight D Eisenhower

[@mystic37]

that was an Eisenhower quote

[@Thelaughingboy214]

@@mystic37 actually it was a deez nuts quote

[@Laywer_1]

😂😂😂this shyt real

[@hi_lol1912]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@aidan1R]

That wasnt an eisenhower quote. Eisenhower paraphrased, the original acyually appears in The Book Of The Royal Blue, from Arthur G Lewis, who wrote it in his section Stub Ends Of Thought

[@The_United_States_Of_America76]

This is why forests and sheer ingenuity along with willpower are the most dangerous things on a battlefield

[@actualnotsorightguy3]

And the guerrilla tactics

[@actualnotsorightguy3]

And the liberal media in the US with hippie culture

[@actualnotsorightguy3]

And the Democrats-majority in Congress

[@actualnotsorightguy3]

And the infamous Henry Kissinger

[@actualnotsorightguy3]

And the huge support from China, USSR. Cuba and North Korea

[@pokiiuwu8624]

A disputed fact in the China-Vietnam war is the use of chemical weapons by the PLA, contaminating the water of Mekong river flowing into northern Vietnam (which is called Hong river), the region being most affected is the border where most of the fighting occurred. My father was once an operator of a counter-battery radar in the war. He said there were already rumors at that time about the contaminated water source at that time but only until now, the consequences has became much more noticeable. Numerous veterans coming back from the war has suffered various health issues and cancer. Two out of seven of my father’s friends (who was all veterans from the Sino-Vietnamese war) have had cancer, one has just died yesterday and my parents went to his funeral. And for anyone who said those cancer is just natural causes, there is no such coincidence that more than half of my father’s platoon have now developed cancer.

[@TheCanadianCommunist]

Well the U.S did worse leaving 800,000 pounds of unexploded bombs and using the chemical agent orange which cause a increase chance of bladder infection. (Am sorry for your loss)

[@daivn]

noooo Mekong River and Hong River are two different rivers, they do not have any connection.

[@pokiiuwu8624]

@@daivn they all started in the same upstream my dude, check the map

[@daivn]

@@pokiiuwu8624 man, I've checked the map, it's really different, see: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Mekong_river_basin.png

[@haider5044]

Wth that's actually crazy !! You have more details on this ?

[@captainsensiblejr.]

Gate Pa (pa means a fortified place) was named for the gate of a fence separating colonist land from Maori Land. The British in the Land Wars in New Zealand soon developed a great respect for the superior strategies, tactics, aggression and sheer bravery of their Maori opponents who were masters of defensive trench and bunker warfare. In battle, they became famous as brave, tenacious and deadly opponents. During WWII, Rommel's Africa Corp and German forces in Italy learned to dread hearing the 2nd New Zealand Division Maori performing their war dance, the haka [hah-KAH] because it meant they were about to have their arses handed to them by truly terrifyingl soldiers. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel said that he considered the New Zealand Army division were the best trained soldiers in North Africa, and that if he had a regiment of New Zealanders, he could have taken and held North Africa.

[@whatspopular3268]

I'm hoping the second movie after The Convert will be this story of Pa gate and then a third movie of the 21st Māori Battlion

[@TaneK9]

Love this comment

[@robertwoodroffe123]

@@whatspopular3268that’s 28 Battalion

[@PuhiPureBloOdYT]

My ancestor Kawiti in the North also beat the British at the battle of Ruapekapeka

[@johnwicksdog4399]

Mean Maori Mean ! Kia Ora Whanau

[@marksmank5967]

You forgot about the Mongols, Vietnam is also one of the few countries that survived from a Mongol invasion in the 13th century.

[@KhmerShadow]

All of Southeast Asia resisted them and won their battles but eventually paid tribute to leave them alone

[@squadcode71]

Not just Vietnam, but also other few countries like Japan and Indonesia (the latter being Majapahit at the time)

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

@@squadcode71 majapahit was founded right *after* the mongol invasion.

[@squadcode71]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Read the history again. Majapahit was formed even before Mongols set foot, and had defeated the Malay Kingdom before. They defeat the rival Kediri Kingdom thanks to the Mongols. Only after the Kediri defeated that the Majapahit turned against the Mongols, expelled them from Indonesia.

[@daimyo-awaji]

2nd and the 3rd Mongol Invasions were composed of Southern Chinese troops. Hard to call it a Mongol Army.

[@Interdictiondeltawing]

This took “size don’t matter” to a whole new level😭

[@neofulcrum5013]

You just gotta make due and use your other skills lol

[@numer1number4hater]

Search up "Hussite wars" bro 💀🙏

[@MrZeh617]

It's not the size of the 🔨 it's the nail you're throwing it at ! Lol 🍺😎

[@bahlulmia]

f India

[@zali13]

If I recall correctly, the Maoris at Gate Pa used 12 gauge double barrel stage coach shotguns, which were devastating in the short range trench fighting.

[@viraltiktokempire1148]

They were double barreled muskets bro not shotguns they called them tupara

[@inevitable934]

@@viraltiktokempire1148 they were still shotguns lmao

[@Day_0ne]

​@@viraltiktokempire1148 Bro Tupara is my work mates last name and he told me about it meaning double barrel. Pretty cool.

[@viraltiktokempire1148]

@@inevitable934 shot guns have buckshot and tupara fired ballbearings like a musket, just look it up lol

[@PaulG.x]

@@viraltiktokempire1148 They fired musket balls not ball bearings. What would the point of firing bearings? And , as Tupara were muzzle loaders , the projectiles used was at the whim of the gunner. He could load a single solid musket ball and fire it and then load some bird shot and fire that - he could even have a different load in each barrel if he wished.

[@hgsoundwave6743]

As a New Zealander, i want to thank you for including the battle of Gate Pa. I remember learning about the New Zealand wars during school but i never learned of this battle. Thank you.

[@corvidcorax]

I had to learn about Gate Pa in primary since I used to live next to it.

[@bradleymasters1456]

I vaguely learnt about it at school, but it was a brief topic sadly :( Hello fellow kiwis btw xD

[@wontontoe2150]

*as a kiwi*

[@otani8806]

Chur cuz

[@shakobe682]

@@otani8806Chur chur

[@afrikasmith1049]

Battle of Gate Pa is a prime example of adaptation should always be more important over superiority.

[@Thepublisher-og3vd]

@logan3277 dont forget about the kupapa, the brits did not win on there own

[@dub_h7900]

​@logan3277 the brits lost more battles then they won in nz do some research they won a few decisive battles though Simply threw share numbers and technology not by any great tactics and definitely not threw great soldiers. Maori fought as tribes not as one people if they had of fought together it would of been a nightmare for the brits.

[@aventidblechchlatechipfrap7465]

​@logan3277 are you sure? maori still own huge swathes of land, their language is taught in schools, their culture is as strong as ever and admired by people across the world it is you who has nothing and the world forgets, except your humiliating shame and defeat by 'savages'

[@zinzan8132]

@logan3277 True, but the fact that Māori still hold a treaty, somewhat useless,and a place in parliament sure is a testament to their perseverance, I mean just look at the aborigines in Australia if you know what I mean.

[@pemonline3395]

Kawiti o Nga Puhi was the first Māori to use the new system he designed to fight the Pakeha. When asked how they were going to compete against an enemy with cannon, he once famously replied " Guns can miss". His system included firing platforms, artillery bunkers and other innovations.

[@richardsawyer5428]

Whilst it wasn't technically a defeat, the lessons taught to the British by the Boers lead to the pre WW1 Army Reforms; new, more practical uniforms and webbing, improved rifles, more marksmanship training (more than most other nations of the time.) We also found out that large numbers of the British population were too malnourished for military service, hence The School Meals Act. One good, free meal a day ready for turning kids into soldiers should the need arise. I'm of the age where I still benefitted from that law (although I've never been to war.)

[@jibberism9910]

Thanks for sharing!

[@kiwigaming1605]

Thanks for mentioning the Maori at Gate Pa! Great work!

[@ChrisKane-]

Kia ora! 😉

[@foreheadisshot7464]

YOZA

[@bowtieguy5281]

The Indian commander who defended his position against overwhelming odds should be awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration.

[@Raul_Menendez]

India no talent.

[@BigBrotherTheWatcher1984]

He passed away in 2018 at the age of 77.

[@JoeRogansForehead]

Best I can do is 3.50 phone calls about PlayStation gift cards

[@TatteKaBaal]

I am not sure about the awards. But this is the most notoriously famous tale of Indian Army's bravery in India. There is also a very famous movie named "Border" about it.

[@rudragaming6977]

​@@JoeRogansForeheadyou really think you did something great. 😂😂

[@jseipp]

Great depiction of Cannae! One important factor in Hannibal's strategy that was overlooked here is that he placed himself at the center with his weakest forces to reassure them that they were not being sacrificed and had an important part to play in the upcoming battle. His line may not have held without that.

[@Thebulldogschannel648-7]

The Kokoda track is a good one the Australian milta had ww1 weapons with low supplies fighting the Japanese and they slowed down and beat the Japanese becoming the first army to do so in the war

[@Lwis]

20 years later was the Battle of Long Tan where Australian and New Zealand forces stopped a larger force of Vietcong.

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

I don’t think the Australians were the first army to defeat the Japanese in battle, I think that goes to the Americans in June, and the Australians lost the first engagement, nevertheless still impressive against the odds

[@traj7196]

​@@enriqueperezarce5485the first land defeat of the japanese actually happened in Milne Bay by predominantly Australian forces in 1942

[@Chrissiiboi]

As a kiwi, I didn’t expect the solid Māori pronunciation. Good job

[@HamzaMagomnang]

This vid really gave a whole new look on history keep making videos

[@ASH9366]

Thank you Simple History ℹ️

[@AJKam1kaz3]

While it was a short segment, I'm glad you've covered the Sino-Vietnamese War (Third Indochina War). My uncle (as a kid) and his family fled Vietnam not because the end of the Vietnam but before the Sino-Vietnamese War as there was already mistrust of people who are half Chinese half Vietnamese.

[@tai6161]

Khát nước không

[@Goc4ever]

Thanks for providing us with this interesting video Simple History. As a history buff you have my most sincere gratitude, well done. That's a very terrifying thumbnail that also makes a clever Return of the Jedi reference with the vietcong using the skulls of his enemies as improvised drums similarly to the Ewoks who did the same with the Stormtrooper helmets.

[@nanayu18]

you can defeat me simple history guy

[@qaundaledingle8921]

What the flip dude

[@3p1kduck]

Lol

[@stanktaint15]

GGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY

[@phantasma9391]

Gyimifo

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

ha, gaaaaaaae!

[@dudemanyeah1645]

I work about 400 metres from the Battle of Gate Pa site. It’s wild to think a trench war was fought there. It’s literally just a church and a serene reserve in the middle of town.

[@Teaone123]

I remember a lot of rabbit poo everywhere 😂😂😂 is it still the same

[@Caady]

Not even mentioning the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest? One of the must humiliating defeats for the Roman Empire..

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

Not really an impossible against the odds, they (Germanic peoples) had almost every advantage leading up to it

[@Caady]

@@enriqueperezarce5485 Yeah thats true but the video is about humiliating military defeats and this battle was one of it

[@trevorlewis847]

How many times do we gotta hear of the same old battles,teutoberg little bighorn isandlwana Rorke's drift etc etc etc so good to hear about others for once

[@johnhallett5846]

@@trevorlewis847 true that there are lesser known battles that deserve attention. BUT you have to really dig for them and actually to to libraries or get real books and few are interested in that much effort

[@Imgettingaword]

​@johnhallett5846 it's called studying.

[@ish11234]

thank you so much for mentioning the battle of Longewala ❤️❤️

[@MatthewSmith-to1hz]

Next video idea: The 5 Sullivan Brothers

[@CristianMonserrate-wo2rk]

I like that

[@Goc4ever]

Great idea😉!

[@hemanag1020]

My great great grandfather, Kauia te Tapuke was one of the 220 warriors in gate pa. ❤️❤️

[@m60pattoncovidiot29]

You should do more videos about military equipment

[@HesmiyuMC]

such as the Bob Semple tank

[@kwyoushyt6356]

LOVE the stories and your animation!! thank you for giving us these awesome videos!

[@2dhistory197]

americans: we didn't lose we just successfully evacuated

[@aridicaexmontaudon1296]

I wonder if the nva ever thanked walter kronkite for saving them?😊

[@Bojax-y3z]

Excuses Excuses. Don't forget Jane Fonda and the Hippies. 🎉​@@aridicaexmontaudon1296

[@AlphaJnx]

"I merely Failed TO WIN"

[@aridicaexmontaudon1296]

@@AlphaJnx or as rambo says, someone didn't let them win.

[@LongHoang-lk9mv]

​@@aridicaexmontaudon1296 we appreciated and thanks him but that is just one of the reason for american withdrawal i think

[@neofulcrum5013]

I can’t help but admire guerrilla warfare. When implemented correctly, an asymmetrical force can shift the tide against a larger conventional army. Course there is a line to draw with certain attacks that can devolve into outright extremism as typically the guerrilla needs the support of the populace to thrive. “The conventional army wins if it doesn’t lose. The guerrilla loses if it does not win”- Henry Kissinger You guys should cover the history of guerrilla warfare/guerrilla tactics on the channel one day.

[@MichaelGibbons-uk2mc]

Just the opposite, I think.

[@jiaweichew3370]

Ironically this type of warfare is heavily used by insurgents and terrorists today as well as those with numerically or technologically inferior. If you can’t decisively engage an enemy then you can’t DESTROY the enemy.

[@derekm424]

Guerilla warfare can be traced way way way back to the piks and Germanic hordes against Rome to probably before that.

[@FutaCatto2]

The problem was, the treaty of not being able to use nukes or doing mass bombings of city areas.

[@probableanfanofdoomfucking9542]

@@FutaCatto2 yeah but the problem Vietnam is protected by the USSR. If the US dares to lay a single finger on nuclear weapons, you know the results right? WW3

[@peterhowe547]

Thanks for noticing Aotearoa/ New Zealand!!!!

[@simonpathomas4421]

The English learnt about trench warfare that day and obviously used it later on in their battles i.e. WW1 etc

[@corymorimacori1059]

Napoleon Dynamite: Welcome to the Battle of Waterloo part 2! Theodore Roosevelt: Let’s face it, you’re not all that great. You tossed away lives in Gallipoli like they were scraps off your plate! You should be ashamed of your military honor! Ivan the Terrible: Ohhh, what a humiliating defeat! Ik when will ma beat, so of course take a seeeat!

[@destic7767]

It's another great day! Its's another great victory, and no one can defeat me! WHAT ABOUT ME POMPEY! 🎵🎼

[@LvoZee05]

​@@destic7767maaaacedonians prussians and Romans, those aren't worthy opponents

[@systemical1]

epic rap battles of history

[@russmorrow1428]

Epic Rap Battles of History

[@NeoPsychosis-zg2ki]

there's another humiliating defeat at 2002, the pentagon's ambitious 'Millennium Challenge 2002' which the technologically advanced blue force was defeated by 'inferior' red force led by Lt. Col. Paul Van Riper

[@HEMZbEATS]

Awesome channel I recommend to look into The Battle of Ruapekapeka 'Kawiti's Pa' regarded as one of the best defensive encampments ever made for its time. It is belived the concept of trench warfare came from this.

[@vladsiminica2801]

Next video idea : Battle of Vienna ( 1683 ) - The battle who decimated the expansion of the Ottoman Empire

[@DanielAspajo9930]

Wow I haven't seen your channel in years, the KZbin algorithm svcks I'm glad to found you again

[@WarioWareCEO]

I like how it's set up like a classroom...You should do this "Talking to the class" shtick more often :D

[@DanH-u3f]

China being beaten by Vietnam in 1979 is the most humiliating and lose face war.

[@Vietnam_Gigachad]

With you guy can see it took 1 or 2 year but in fact it took over 10year from 79 to 89 "someplace it took to 93" to end the war while chinese suffering most of men but they achieve their goals is damaged Vietnam economic so danm hard that they took a while to recover

[@LaVodangvada25tuoi]

And Chinese still claim that: Chinese won that war, and Vietnamese still claim: Vietnamese won that war ( I’m as a neutral side)

[@眼鏡をかけた野うさぎ]

@@LaVodangvada25tuoi Vietnam believes that they blocked the Chinese invasion. China failed to invade Hanoi, so it was their victory. China's view is that at that time, Vietnam tried to invade other Southeast Asian countries to become the hegemon of Indochina. China could not accept the emergence of new powers around it, so China chose to invade Vietnam and interrupt their aggression against Cambodia. After that, Vietnam chose to strengthen its northern defense line. It was also unable to invade surrounding countries. China achieved their strategic goals so they retreated. Both sides think they're winning, so I assume it's a "win-win"?

[@NammaNeko-hg1ho]

​@@眼鏡をかけた野うさぎ I would say Vietnam has won. I mean how embarrassing it is for Chinese people to get killed in the jungle warfare

[@bobs_toys]

Feels like a victory would have involved them leaving Cambodia. ​@@眼鏡をかけた野うさぎ

[@Sniperm0n]

Hannibals victory is the definition of fortune favors the bold.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

I believe that the Viet Cong were the inspiration for the Ewoks in ROJ. One thing I read about, but haven't been able to verify, was that the VC had a large cave. Every time B-52's flew over the cave, it resonated, alerting the VC further down the line. Also, I'd heard that the VC fought the NVA after the war, since they didn't share the same goals.

[@vuvu9750]

Nah Vietcong were mostly destroyed after the Tet Offensive in 1968 . They were intergrated into the PLA after 1968. After the war maybe some VC leader dont agree with some policy but not enough to lead to war

[@KLA611]

You should do a video about the Fall of Singapore

[@rtyrsson]

Just a small detail: The animation of the Carthaginians marching through the Alps, the Carthaginians are all carrying their falcatas backward with the blades facing themselves. Just a tiny nerd detail. It was an excuse to leave a comment. I always look forward to a new video. Keep up the great work and thank you very much!

[@TheResistance-ye8bh]

I looked for the First Anglo-Afghan War, but didn't find it here. For those who don't know, the entire British army was wiped out except for one army doctor who ran away and managed to escape. This war ended up strengthening the Afghans as they collected the guns of the British soldiers they killed.

[@davidarango4679]

You guys forgot about Custers' last stand at Little Big Horn.

[@Mrbananasgfan]

Too humiliating. Wouldn't want to upset the Americans

[@capncake8837]

⁠@@Mrbananasgfan They’ve done quite a few videos that don’t make the US look too good. And most Americans today view Custer as a villain.

[@davidarango4679]

@@Mrbananasgfan but yet its ok to upset the British, about their own humiliating defeats, correct?

[@aleksandarvil5718]

9:00 ; 12:50 Hamilcar Barca: _(crying)_ "I'm sorry son, i've just never been so proud." r/OverSimplified

[@aaronbecker5617]

The lesson is if you want to defeat a determined enemy you cant leave a single person alive...most people dont want to go to this point

[@buinghiathuan4595]

Even Vietnamese didn't know much about 79 either. Government from both side really don't want to talk about it

[@kordvoitles]

The fritz kligenberg one was funny af lol

[@שמעוןאייזנברג-צ3כ]

There is no more humiliating defeat then the Toyota war

[@olivierpuyou3621]

It is difficult to compare the Indochina War and the Vietnam War. 1946 France was still clearing the ruins of WW2, civilians were still eating with ration cards. France was never able to send more than 50,000 men at the same time and with the completely exhausted machines that had all the campaigns of WW2. On the American side we are talking about the richest country in the world which had at the height of the Vietnam War more than three million men, tanks, aircraft carriers, jet planes and the best logistical support for all armies of all time confused. However, they lasted less long than the French “tramps”.

[@Xboxzilla]

2:30 Nice Pulgasari reference!

[@leostormrage8201]

Great video for 70 year celeb of Điện Biên Phủ battle. Love this channel

[@AJKam1kaz3]

Wished they expanded it more but it was good to give people idea how it later lead to the Second Indochina War (aka The Vietnam War).

[@jvun8178]

Māori children (6-11 years) were said to have been running up and down the trenches carrying several fully loaded muskets to hand out to soldiers and then reload the empty ones. It was like a secret fast reload perk that the British found overwhelming seeing they were used to reloading their own musket

[@allantaylor1693]

awesome man

[@montecorbit8280]

There's enough material for this topic to make a series of videos!! Please do so!!

[@bobbieshin6574]

This is pretty good to run in the background

[@deluxeriley]

2:14 the words “increasingly frustrating quagmire” are way too funny

[@gmn9365]

A Sino-Vietnamese war myth: Vietnamese Ethnic people near border cooked dead Chinese soldier bone for bone glue and homemade medicine then sell back to Chinese people. These thing got really high price and sell very fast. At the south between Cambodia and Vietnamese: Some soldier got amount of M72 LAW some doesnt have fuse trigger or failed (idk how to tell these condition sr) , they made the "Mini-Katyusha" by solder them with one trigger. At night when Cambodian troops pushin, they fire the Mini-Katyusha at the troops only once time but scared Cambodian troops raid their point.

[@moostafa3624]

Awesome work, as always

[@anxiousbottle]

vietnam war would be a great underdog story for holywood if it wasnt for the fact that america were the villans

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

north vietnam was supported by soviet and china, so not really an underdog.

[@anxiousbottle]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 svn was supported by america and america put troops while vietnas allies didnt

[@derironrailfan1919]

@@anxiousbottledont forget sk australia and thailand

[@a.0311]

Yea it was honestly a really stupid war

[@JK-cn5fy]

@@anxiousbottlepro commi… sucking at life is an option kiddo

[@ZDavidH]

Bicoca battle, defense of Cartagena de Indias battle (Blas de Lezo) and the last of Philippines. I suggest you to read about this battles, they are super cool and part of the Spanish history.

[@LUFFY09789]

Indian Military awards - Vir Chakra - For showing outstanding bravery in Battle Mahavir Chakra - For Showing Exemplary bravery in Battle Param Vir Chakra - For Showing legendary acts of bravery in Battle, it is often given posthumously too.

[@Spetsnaz690]

Don't forget Sena medal which falls below vir chakra.

[@tristanplatts8869]

Calling a shot before I watch. Zulus defeating the English is def going to be on here!

[@explosioncatsandknives7747]

3 times the Mongols comes 3 times they failed to conquer Viet Nam. Albeit was a very challenging defense but we won anyway hehe :3

[@cate01a]

appreciate this more dense format, and the summary at the end of the chapters, but man I hate the exhaling

[@mrsecuroserv8292]

I got an example of this: the Yom Kippur war. When 2 Arab country collation attempted to invade Israel in 1973 and failed.

[@f-15estrikeeagle35]

And 2/3 of the IDF was on leave lmao

[@jonwebb6644]

The 1967 war was even more humiliating for the Arabs.

[@JustinAndrews74]

As a Vietnamese-American I'm glad to see more quality videos about the Indochina War(s) (plural). Kudos!

[@leehyun6513]

Wow, you really are spot on with the Vietnam conflicts here, since I'm Vietnamese myself.

[@Harikejn]

Additional thing I might add: During the World War One there were the victories of Allied, that occurred on Balkan peninsula. It was the battle on mountain Cer, and on river Kolubara. These two battles also happened at the beginning in 1914. And Austro -Hungarian empire suffered defeats there. And I heard that tactics is also studied at some other military academies around the world (you can correct me if I made a mistake).

[@Damnedlegion40k]

No Siege of Jadotville?

[@eymoose]

0:35 I never got the David vs Goliath reference. Like… of course the dude that can throw a rock 100 something miles an hour split the big dudes head open. I bet an 80 yr old woman could beat prime mike Tyson with a 12 gauge. You wouldn’t go “dang who saw that coming!”

[@saintjacques8137]

Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in hardcore in-depth Art of War content I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

[@pelayo4252]

One of your best video ever made

[@BadVoodo0]

I don't think Vietnam was embarrassing, they fought well and hard. Desert storm was embarrassing, Iraq barely fought back.

[@rionpost7435]

It WAS embarrassing it’s ALWAYS embarrassing for a great and well trained conventional military force to lose to a bunch of evil/corrupted communist rice pickers with no air support(and I don’t call them rice pickers out of malice or prejudice I say that because that’s what they did, they were farmers of rice and sugar and stuff like that)

[@wdcain1]

Saddam, their friggin' commander, didn't issue a single order during the operation.

[@Uhgerm]

I don't know that they could. My dad was deployed there and he was on the flight line as a jet engine mechanic. He said they bombed them into the stone age for a month before they started the ground invasion. He said the planes were going in and out nonstop

[@legirondin2077]

@@rionpost7435 Well, if you're talking about the "great and well trained conventional military force," it never lost to a bunch of rice pickers. The Vietnamese lost every operation they ever launched, and the rice pickers died in quantities rivaling their own harvest. 47,000 Americans died in combat, while a staggering 1.1 million North Vietnamese kicked it during the nearly 20 year conflict. The war was only ever lost because US media showed footage of the war that seemed to contradict the government's rhetoric. Even the footage they did show, which turned public opinion, was of a failed Vietnamese operation (Tet).

[@RazorsharpLT]

@@UhgermThat's desert storm. Operation Iraqi freedom had much less preemptive bombardment.

[@vladimirgluten32]

I like the new segment where he breaks down what he just talked about and its significance and importance

[@Sultan_Abdulrahman807]

I think the Worse Failed Military Is a Gallipoli Though because the British With their Navy Got Defeated by Ottoman Cannons

[@richardsawyer5428]

That defeat plus the failure of the Dieppe raid could be seen to mould the thinking behind Operation Overlord.

[@stevenandrewedwardsedwards3080]

Sad thing the Ottomans lost many more men and were about to collapse but we withdrew 1st. Their loses contributed to Ottomans leaving WW1 early. Nothing should be taken away from all the brave young men of both side. Rest in peace All

[@alonelylokimain3710]

I really like the new animated narrating thing it's really cool

[@vietnamtoivodich-wk6sf]

Vietnam: I defeated 3 of the top 5 countries on the United Nations Security Council

[@MUNN13M4HN]

What was bro doing in the tv on the bottom left at 0:42 💀😂

[@BruhTNT4258]

I thought for sure the Emu War was the worst military defeat. I mean, imagining losing a war to flightless birbs

[@coolguy2830]

This guy talking to me straight is pretty cool, makes the video a bit more calm

[@Emotionalsavage281]

Santa annas defeat of san jacinto should have been on here..... Sam Houston out numbered, attacked a resting mexican army. Almos the entire mexican army was wiped out while the texans lost 15. This was the battle that gave texas its independence. The battle was over under 20 min, but there were hours of texans finding the mexican army and excuting them.

[@anarchyanna]

America the last 60 years not learning its lesson 😅

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

I mean, the cynical answer is that it was never about "winning," but rather political agendas and distracting the people at home from domestic issues by waging a bloody and flashy war overseas. Which would mean that unfortunately the lesson wasn't winning at war but rather winning at politics

[@dilligaff1979]

Thank you for not mentioning the the emu wars of Australia! 1932

[@lukelee7967]

Much of Vietnam's history can be summed up with an empire saying "Nice country, shame if someone would try to take over it with military force" And Vietnam responding "Please don't, you won't like the outcome" After said empire is forced away you can cut to Vietnam standing at it's border "No hard feelings, just stay away please"

[@zaclegend132]

This was Awesome!

[@toshiro8932]

What about the 1000 Filipinos fighting against 40000 Chinese during the Korean War.

[@gantulga2665]

Tumu crisis deserves a mention on this list The battle that mongols win against 500k ming army with 20k mongol army this is 25:1 battle

[@anandasankarchakraborty9965]

As an Indian, I can say there was another battle fought in 1965 Indo-Pak war -- battle of Asal Uttar, which is known for being the largest one sided tank victory since the battle of Kursk WW2. Indian army faced a vastly superior Pakistani tank force of 200+ strength comprising of US made Patton tank and Shermans. Indians laid out a careful ambush and decimated Pakistanis , who lost 150+ tanks while Indian loss was around 20 tanks. The strategy is taught in the military academies around the world. The battle site filled with corpses of Pakistani Patton tanks was renamed as "Patton Nagar" (Patton city).

[@xscorpion8834]

NICE JOKE 5 fighters in 1 minute 😂 And As a Afghani PAKISTAN KICK USSR AND USA FROM Afghanistan 10:50

[@kuriankeralaIndia]

Afghan Pakistani? It's Afghan rebels not Pakistani in Afghan. Also we all see what happened to Afghan immigrants who came to Pakistan.

[@amnaibrahim1]

Chawinda🤫

[@Rudraksh-ql4ce]

​@@amnaibrahim1 chawinda was a stalemate , not a defeat

[@amnaibrahim1]

@@kuriankeralaIndia he means as an afghan,pakistan kicked out ussr and usa from afghanistan

[@quelamhangoc2412]

For Vietnam, you can also add their war against the Mongols (which was the biggest superpower at that time) which ended in the battle of Bach Dang.

[@tristansolso1920]

In my opinion, Vietnam was more of a political defeat more than a military defeat

[@shinygoldenpotion1587]

Vietnam: Gets the south to win with the help of the americans North Vietnam: sike

[@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378]

​@@shinygoldenpotion1587 > Leaves out Vietnam American intervention wouldn't last until 10 years.

[@grandcanyon-d4d]

Same can be said about Germany in Russia, they dominated militarily, but the poor decisions of their leader made the operation fail, but still failed, "we didn't lose militarily but lost politically" can be applied to ANY army and occupation force, not just the US.

[@Casmaniac]

War is just the ultimate form of diplomacy, therefore politics, same same

[@tristansolso1920]

@@Casmaniac not really, the US won every battle in Vietnam, the problem was getting the Vietnamese to like democracy

[@AllStuffofWonder_YT]

Another one: battle of red cliffs, three kingdoms dynasty in ancient China. Liu bei and sun ce led an army of 50k to defeat Cao cao(200k men) at red cliffs to prevent him advancing farther into Han. This battle occurred on the river, and cao cao’s boats were connected, so one of liu bei’s generals sent a fake surrender letter to the other army, agreeing to bring ships. HOWEVER, the ships were all filled with flammable dry grass (all the ships back then were made of wood), and when the ships were close enough, they were set one fire, and because cao cao’s ships were CONNECTED, even if one ship set alight, all the others should too.

[@charlessaint7926]

I find it rather strange, Vietnam is one of our closest allies when it comes to fighting China. That and Taiwan and Japan.

[@mattg4705]

Alledgedly

[@whitegoat1089]

Fun fact: the "occupied" territories which China took were actually territories of ethnic groups. This is why there were small number of soldiers in 1979. After the Chinese invasion, Vietnam increased its troops guarding the border. Moreover, because of this, Vietnam dodged a bullet: before 1979 the ethnic groups along the Vietnam-China border considered themselves neutral and quiet friendly with the Chinese, kinda like the Eastern regions of Ukraine. After 1979, they are fully Vietnamese.

[@legirondin2077]

Anyone who knows more than the surface "pop history" about the Vietnam War knows that it was by far the American soldiers stacking enemy skulls rather than the North Vietnamese. The US took 47,000 combat casualties over nearly 20 years of war. How many casualties did the North Vietnamese take during this time? 1.1 Million.

[@Justin-pe9cl]

Is that just the US or South Vietnam as well.

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

Vietnam took more losses but they still won.

[@legirondin2077]

@@Justin-pe9cl 47,000 accounts for just the US forces. South Vietnam took an additional 313,000 casualties, most of which happened near the ending years of the war where the US was winding down involvement. Still a significant minority to 1.1 million.

[@Justin-pe9cl]

@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger They won because the South didn’t want to invade the north for fear of the Chinese. It’s a shame because Ho Chi Mhin was a fan of the US and could have been an ally.

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

And it was precisely that obsession with "enemy casualty numbers" that lost us the war in the first place.